Araceli Lemos

“Miguel Alvarez Lleva Peluca” is Araceli Lemos’s thesis film for the California Institute of the Arts. Araceli is a writer, director, and editor, born in France, and raised in Greece. She studied International Economics in Athens and then moved to Los Angeles as a Fulbright and Onassis Foundation Scholar to pursue an MFA in Film Directing at the California Institute of the Arts.

She is currently in post-production of her first feature film, titled “Holy Emy.” The film was inspired by her first feeling when moving to Los Angeles from Greece, of being free to redefine herself in a different cultural context. She said of her film: "’Miguel Alvarez Lleva Peluca’ was created as my attempt to take a peek at the other side."